Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
Ramamurti Shankar | |
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 Shankar in 2018 | |
| Born | April 28, 1947 New Delhi, British India |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Awards | Lilienfeld Prize (2009) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
| Thesis | Exploitation of the Small Pion Mass in Multi-Regge Theory (1974) |
| Website | pantheon |
Education
editHe received his B. Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1974).
Career
editHis research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, although he is also known for his earlier work in theoretical particle physics. In 2009, Shankar was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society for "innovative applications of field theoretic techniques to quantum condensed matter systems".[2] After three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he joined the Yale physics department, which he chaired between 2001-2007.[3] He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the second Indian after S. Chandrasekhar to be a member of Harvard Society of Fellows. His Youtube lectures have been viewed by over 20 million people. In 2004 he was appointed the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics and in 2019 the Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics.
Selected publications
edit- Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum, 1994.
- Basic Training in Mathematics, Plenum, 1995.[4]
- Fundamentals of Physics, Yale Press, 2014.[5]
- Fundamentals of Physics II, Yale Press, 2016.[6]
- Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2017.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Ramamurti Shankar | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ Pulakkat, Hari (2015-03-21). "Yale physicist R Shankar teaches physics combined with a liberal dose of humour". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ "Books – R. Shankar Personal Page". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ "Fundamentals of Physics by R. Shankar". Yale Books UK. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ "Fundamentals of Physics II | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ Shankar, Ramamurti (2017). Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter by Ramamurti Shankar. Cambridge Core. doi:10.1017/9781139044349. ISBN 9780521592109. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
External links
edit- Ramamurti Shankar webpage at Yale University
- Fundamentals of Physics Lectures on YouTube.